The Congressional Budget Office is in Over its Head with HealthCare Projections.

In 2009 the CBO projected ObamaCare as being far better than it turned out to be for Americans and America. www.weeklystandard.com...

The CBO is projecting that the ObamaCare Replacement bill(s) will be far worse than their ObamaCare projections. www.cbo.gov...

The Congressional Budget Office must be staffed by mostly Obama Administration hires, or, simply staffed by people who, for decades, have never been
held accountable for their estimates and projections. Las Vegas gives more accurate odds and projections than the Congressional Budget Office!

-CareWeMust

p.s. They are a so-called Bipartisan government agency. An embarrassment to both sides of the aisle.

In 2009 the CBO projected ObamaCare as being far better than it turned out to be for Americans and America. www.weeklystandard.com...

The CBO is projecting that the ObamaCare Replacement bill(s) will be far worse than their ObamaCare projections. www.cbo.gov...

The Congressional Budget Office must be staffed by mostly Obama Administration hires, or, simply staffed by people who, for decades, have never been
held accountable for their estimates and projections. Las Vegas gives more accurate odds and projections than the Congressional Budget Office!

The idiots are saying TrumpCare will remove 22 million people from ObamaCare, but there's only 20 million on ObamaCare! (Actually 2 million have quit
since 1.1.2017. So...it's 18 million on ObamaCare.)

The CBO continually adjusted it's ObamaCare projections...from 2009 to 2015. It was FLAT OUT WRONG every time! They should stick to estimating the
cost of a new flag pole in front of the Capital Building.

Most Republican states opted-out of Medicaid Expansion. Medicaid Expansion allows people who earn up to $16,500 to enroll in FREE Medicaid. TEXAS is
one state that didn't expand Medicaid. In Austin, a 45 year-old who earns $12,000 can buy a $850 Deductible health plan for $8 a month. Having a
private health plan is better than having Medicaid.

Senator MARCO RUBIO single-handedly terminated 1/3 of the "risk corridor" program. Essentially it was taking tax-payer money and reimbursing health
insurance companies for some of the financial losses that ObamaCare nailed them with. A taxpayer bailout of insurance companies.

The House and Senate bills both reinstate these "bailouts"...under the reassuring name, "Market Stabilization Provisions".

The Congressional Budget Office is mostly useless. Thank to the rules, they can only score what they are given and they have to score it against
current conditions as if nothing the bill will do will change anything.

imagine if that had been true of Obamacare ... if nothing in the bill had changed anyone's behavior - individual or business. That's how the CBO had
to score it, and they could only score what they received from its authors which was the rough framework only and did not include any of the thousands
of pages of regulations that were written after passage.

We know how worthwhile the CBO score on that bill was, and I can only imagine any CBO scoring on this bill will be similarly accurate.

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